Speaker 1: You up, guys. Oh my gosh, I just opened up
my DMS and jamis one of one. DMed me. Are
you a Roman Catholic universalist? I don't even know what
that means, jamis one of one. I know I've seen
some of your tweets that are not regarded to this.
I don't think I've going to respond to that. Uh,
speaking of the Saints, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Weird time, weird time, speaking of the Saints. Right now
it is Tuesday, which means we are joined by the
man himself, mister Nick Underhill of New Orleans Dot Football
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You should be as well, Nikki. What's up? Brother?
Speaker 3: Ross works for like everybody in some capacities, the answer
might actually be.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's fair ross absolute grinder as well. Look, we
got a lot of talented people covered the normOn Saints's cat.
There's Luke Like, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's all the
TV guy there. There's a lot of talent, but no
Orleans on football. Still just really fantastic job and one
of my main resources when it comes to prepping this show.
Quite frankly, Nick, help me out here, because this is
something that's been very top of mind, and it's probably
not the best question to lead uh this interview with
because it's not the most pressing, but it's something that
I've been a bit surprised to learn over the last
couple of days, and that has to do with the
Derek Carr restructure. I was always under the assumption that
when you restructured whatever, that like, okay, if you decided
to keep him around this year, that okay, next year
it would be easier to get out from under the deal.
But everything that I've read is kind of that next
season you're gonna be in the exact same spot you
were this season. So my question is, does this Derek
car restructure mean that you're not just committed for one
more year, but to a full two more years.
Speaker 3: To Derek Carr, Well, I mean it depends, but yeah,
I mean the thing is when you restructure, you're kicking
money forward, so the hit in the year in the
future becomes more expensive. But then you have the joom
first mechanism, which you cut them on June second, and
then it splits into be like twenty forty or something
like that. And the difference is this year versus next year,
like you wouldn't have gotten any cap relief if you
so like if you if you do a June first designation,
he becomes a free agent, but you have to carry
him on the books until June second, like next year.
If you did it, you'd get nine million dollars immediately
in cap space and then the other kick back on
June stays.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So there is some functional difference in Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the other thing here too is that that I
think what makes it, what made it really hard to
cut him this year, is that you're carrying thirty one
million dollars in dead money up on Marshaun Mottimore. Next year,
you know, hopefully your overall numbers a little bit lower,
it probably won't be. I mean, because by the time
they're done doing all this stuff, you know people are
gonna avoid. But but they might get ahead of some
of the voids. Like Chaysehung was gonna avoid and I
would have put like, I think nine million on the
books this year. They thought, I'm doing expression that boy
gets kicked back, so look, get ahead of some of
these voids. So maybe it won't be fifty million next year,
but if you wanted to walk away from him, you could,
So it's a little bit easier next year. But it's
not easy. It's not like, ye, hey, you're you're you're
in a much better situation. You're kind of in a
similar situation, but instead of it being awful, it's bad,
and you know, bad's an improvement from awful.
Speaker 1: The fact that Josh Allen just signed for nineteen percent
of the cap and Derek Carr basically did for seventeen
when he signed is pretty depressing, Nick, But that's not
what I necessarily want asked about now. You and some
of your recent pieces have maybe intimated that Derek Carr
wanted to explore his options and was willing to work
with these Saints to do so. How much? How come, Like,
how much can you tell us about what that means?
Like what you're inferring there?
Speaker 3: He would have been willing to potentially do something to
facilitate his release so he could sign somewhere else. Okay,
I believe that. I believe that was a conversation I
was had. You know, how far it went, I don't know,
but to say, some want to let them go. They
didn't have a plan to be a quarterback, and they
weren't going to let their car dictate you know, what
they were how they were going to build their team.
They want to be competitive. I think a lot of
us are looking at that other path and say, hey,
like wow, like you could have went down this path,
Like I'm ready for him to do something else at
quarterback myself. But I also understand the idea of bringing
in a new head coach and not wanting to be
a three win team and you know, having a chance
to win games and build your culture and have a
chance to kind of establish and all that stuff. So yeah,
I mean, yeah, I think I think, I mean, I
know that that Derek would have been willing to discuss options.
I would have facilitated his release so that he could
have hit the market and time with a different seas.
Speaker 4: So, Nick, when we take a look at what they
have done, you mentioned Chase Young and the deal there,
and you know, the fifty plus million dollars for someone
who had five and a half sacks last year. But
like we'll get to there and maybe what you thought
of the deal. But there's no doubt that they are
trying to add to the defensive front more than any
other position group. And we know, like Brandon Staley has
to have elite defensive line play because a lot of
times he's only bringing four guys. He'll simulate the pressure,
but he doesn't bring the pressure. So that feels like
the main position group that they knew they had to
change bringing in Brandon Staley.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely a point amphesis. And then you guys
will correct me if I say then they run gotcha?
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Gotcha? That's how I say it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all right, well I'm going with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so, yeah, you know, I think he was absolutely
essential to the scheme. You know, I don't want to
like overstell him or anything like that, but you need
to the three four no's they got him. I think
they need to still do a lot of work on
that defensive line. I don't think that they're in a
in a good place with it, but I mean you
definitely can't allow it to get weaker, you know, the
touch on the second part of that question, I wasn't
yet asked, but you know, I don't feel great about
the value for Chase Young. You know, fifty one million
dollars over three years. He got five and a half
sacks last year had one on a two point conversion.
Six and a half. I mean he was seventh in
the league and pressures, which is great, but I mean
that number needs to change the kind of make sure
that that you know that that value is there all
the way. It does end up coming in It's seventeenth
among defensive ends. So it isn't terrible. It's just, you know,
I kind of liked last year the deal that had
the per game roster bonuses that kind of you know,
it just protected you on the back end for a
player that's had a lot of injuries and you know,
different issues throughout the years. It's more of a straight deal.
This time. There's six million dollars in incentives. Those are
stack incentives that you know, he can earn, So he's
getting the fifty one, you know, assuming he's here for
all three years. Don't love the value, but I mean
I understand why you had to do it. Like you're
in an absolutely awful position there, and that's kind of
what you got to pay to get a free agent
pass rusher. And if they don't have him, I mean
you're down to Cam Jordan in Carl Grinderson in Foxty. Like,
I don't like that situation at all, So I think
you kind of had to spend it. That's what the
market was bearing. Kind of kind of similar with the
Hot deal to Mac deal, so it all kind of
makes sense. I don't think you feel great about it.
But anytime you sign in a free agent, I don't
think you look at the numbers and say, man, like
I feel great about the deal team to start, like,
you're usually paying a little more than you want because
you have to go out on the market and buy
a player.
Speaker 4: So we were talking about Brian Brazi and maybe what
this does for him, and he did have seven and
a half sacks last year. Now that the run game
certainly similar, he's got to continue to improve. Didn't have
a sack down the stretch final four games. But I
mean he showed flashes, like what does this do for him?
You trade for a defensive tackle, you re sign one.
I mean he's probably going to be a five technique
I would assume in this Brandon Stay defense.
Speaker 1: But like, what do you think the plans are for him?
And how did the Saints maybe view him moving forward?
Speaker 3: I think he's maybe like the most interesting player on
the defense right now because the fit isn't super obvious
because he's not a very good run defender. So like,
I don't think he's getting on the field early downs.
So is he just a nickel player? It's fun with
if he is. I mean you're still on the field
a lot. But yeah, the scheme's a little bit different,
the fit's a little bit different, and I just don't like,
I think he has to get drastically better at that
run aspect of it to kind of keep his foothold
on it. I mean, obviously he's gonna have some type
of role, but like you would hope that your first
round picks more than just like a third down interior
pass rusher, Like you know, you would kind of like
to see way more production out of him. And it's
kind of crazy, like you look up at all of
a sudden, he's in year three of being an NFL player,
Like it feels like he just got here, but like
it's time for it's time to cash in on the
fotanl like you got to put it all together here
in Yeah, I'm wondering where he's gonna go because you
got a lot of guys now and he's the one
that kind of has like you know, you want him
to be at the top of that list, but like
the skill set isn't quite all the way there to
fit with with what's important in this scheme. So yeah,
I'm curious to see what he can put together. I
think I think that that run aspect has to be
like not not a little better, like way way better
for him to get to snapch that like warrant that
first round investment.
Speaker 1: Uh Nick, So Chad Avlmar's wanting the chat, ask an
answer you question And I should know this, like I
I should know this, but I don't genuinely know that
I do anymore. He says. This is the second off
season Nick forgot to mention Peyton Turner when talking about
defensive ends on the team. Uh, is Fane Turner on
the team?
Speaker 5: Like what?
Speaker 1: Like, I actually don't know free agent?
Speaker 3: He's a free agent?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so he's so he's not on the team.
Was he ever on the team?
Speaker 3: Can you confirm ah Man tomorrow three o'clock? Yeah, free agent? Yeah,
I mean I don't I don't see, I don't know.
I guess he could come back, you know, if he
league minimum or something like that. But yeah, it feels
like the ship sailed. There's time to move on, get
better death Yeah.
Speaker 6: Brute, brute. Well.
Speaker 1: Uh, Now the Saints, dude finished their restructures with Granderson,
Rees and Saunders. Uh, they got thirteen million dollars in
cap space? What does that mean? Is that anything? Like
how much does it cost to sign a rookie class? Now?
Does that really mean anything? Just beyond signing the rookie class?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's still going to spend
some money in free agency too. They were in on
some of the he's the free agency the forty nine
ers cornerback that went to the Colts names escape from me.
He got about twenty million a year. They were in
on him, So I wouldn't be surprised, Like maybe it's
Fante Samuel Junior. It could be someone that you know,
I had Brandon stay Ties. I could see him potentially
being a fit there. You know, the rookie class doesn't
cost a ton to sign, you know, I think you're
a few million bucks functionally, you know when you figure
in the top fifty one formula, So they got plenty
of room to do stuff. Wants to chase young contract hits.
I think they'll probably have about fifteen million. We just
haven't kind of seen how all the money's laid out,
but seventeen million dollars roster bonus. I would assume one
point one seven million dollar base salary just based on
how they always do it, and then you take it
out the five years, so it's gonna be around four
million plus. They's like a two point eight million carryovers,
so I think that drops probably two point five ish
overall his numbers. So they're gonna have some money here,
and then I think we could still see maybe a
Tyron Matthew contract change. It takes some Hill contract change,
Cam Jordan contract change.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I think in the case of Tyring, like he's owed
three point five million dollars and guaranteed money overall numbers
at like six and a half, I think, I mean,
I wouldn't be surprised to see it get cut down
to the like. You know, Tyron's been a team player
and he and he's willing to do and well has
been willing to do, yeah, you know what he needs
to do to stay here. So I woul't be surprised
to see him go down to like three point five
with the Chancellor and you know, back to rest and incentives.
So I think there's some different things to create more space.
And if you don't spend it all, you can carry
it over to the next year. So you know, I
think we're gonna see some some more cost cutting measures
over over the next shoot. Where are we going three
o'clock tomorrow? Before three o'clock tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Why why am I blanking?
Speaker 5: What was?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Paulson Adivo? So Paulson did you gets a pretty big
deal from the Giants obviously, I mean a talented player.
But do you believe that the Saints makes I mean
you mentioned them being in on a guy like Javeria's ward.
Do you do you think the Saints made the right
move in allowing the debo to walk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's kind of it's kind of interesting.
Like there's times that I think I think a divo
looked great, you know, eighty percent of the plays, ninety
percent of the plays, and then there's the grabbiness and
the pis and all that stuff. And I think at
a lower price, you probably feel good about having Paulson
on your team. But at eighteen twenty million, I don't
think you feel great about that. Over you know, it
just doesn't it doesn't feel like a great deal to me.
I wouldn't want to pay it, but man, the cap
keeps going up, and it kind of feels like I
need to like recalibrate what players are worth, because like
I'm seeing some of these numbers and I'm like, really
for that guy, and you know, I guess, you know,
seventeen million dollars today, it was twelve million dollars in
twenty twenty one. So I mean, you know, if you
do it kind of like that and then account for
I guess it's not terrible, but it just feels it
feels too rich for me, especially with where the Saints
are with the cap. You know, I know they wanted
to keep them. They made an effort, but you know,
ultimately he went to the Giants got paid more.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: They're throwing money around right now. They got a front
office that's you know, trying to save themselves, probably probably
their last chance, their last stand here this year. So
I mean, you know, I don't think you want to
be in a bidding war with the Giants because I
don't think they're spending smart money right now.
Speaker 1: So would you agree with the analysis that I've seen
out of some kind of the league wide corner circles
where this is a like you're seeing because you're right,
you're seeing a lot of them played numbers. Partially it's
because it's such a massive jump in the cap, but
also this is kind of a relatively weaker free agent class,
so you're seeing guys like Chase Young, like pieces that
teams already have get re signed for maybe bigger numbers
because there's just not that much out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that. I mean
that there's nobody out there that that I had, like
super circle, that that's you know, going to change anybody's
fate or anything like that. I think Patriots did pretty
pretty good and you know, the first wave, but other
than that. Yeah, I mean I don't think I don't
think it's a great year. Yeah, I don't think it's
a great year. But look in general, like if you're
a team with their cap issues and that, you don't
want to see them spending crazy money on day one,
like right now, I kind of want them to like
damn pat and just continue to be controlled. I mean,
I know that they probably want to shoot for that
kind of eleven wins. I'm fine with just kind of
plugging the holes and doing what you did last year
and just kind of letting it, you know, settle, do
what you can, let it wither away a little bit,
don't go into the full rebuild to kind of just
stay in that spot where CoP's going to be a
little bit cleaner from a year from now than the
year after that. Like you're in good, you know, a
good spot to take advantage of if you've added any
decent pieces. But I don't believe in the full teardown.
But I don't believe in the go for it either.
Like I'm I'm just trying to, you know, pay off
a little bit the credit card, go above the minimum balance,
but like don't spend anything else really, But I think
they will. I think they're gonna try to add a
couple pieces here over the couple days.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting Nick and and and last one
here for me, But it seems like this coaching staff
is going to be asked to really prove themselves this year,
and in that the Saints are going to basically give
them all the same pieces that the last regime had
and they're just saying, do better.
Speaker 6: Is that accurate?
Speaker 5: It's it seems like it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't see.
Speaker 5: It really does.
Speaker 3: So it doesn't feel like they you know, they're they're
It doesn't feel like they're gonna cut anyone. Maybe we'll
get surprised here over the next you know day. You know,
maybe maybe a couple of these vets ended up going,
But I don't think they will. The core of the
team feels like it's about the same. I think they're
gonna add a couple of pieces. But I think what
we're seeing in you know, I've talked to a lot
of the coaches on this staff too. I don't think
they're in total disagreements with it. I think what we're
seeing is the result of you know, there are a
lot of injuries last year and they told us that
the injuries where you issue, I think, and I think
they actually you know, believe that add some depth to it,
build around it, and you know, try to run it back,
and yeah, do a little bit, do a little bit better.
It kind of feels like that is the direction right now.
You know, well we'll see, you know, if they add
some guys in the draft, you throw tyd Warren on
this team and you had a receiver and free agency
or something like that, maybe it feels a little bit different.
But yeah, I don't think there's a massive overhaul here.
I mean the opportunity to see that when it came
with kind of how they approached their current players on
the roster, and it really does seem like there's an
effort to retain everybody and there is not the reset.
It's you know, it kind of felt like it was
going to be Derek Carr or the older players, which direction.
It kind of feels like both, like they're going to
just stick with both right now. And yeah, I mean
it is definitely do better is this? Yeah, I mean
the way you put it is kind of perfect that
that is kind of what it feels.
Speaker 1: Like right now. Just too better coach better, go coach
to just do better.
Speaker 4: Hey, last one for me, Nick, what is the latest
maybe you're hearing with the direction that they're going to
go at number nine? Has it changed? Has it been steady?
Like where do you think they're going to try to attack?
Are they going to maybe even let it play out
to see who's available?
Speaker 3: It feels like to me, I mean the names that
I've been hearing consistently, genteeth in one, I mean those
are the two from the beginning of it. And then
Shamar the athletic edge rusher. I think his combine kind
of turns some heads. He's somebody that I think I
think has some favor in the building.
Speaker 1: He went to a big school though, guys, Okay, well,
and look to be fair, Daniel Hunter exists, right, and
that was Turner. Daniel Hunter had what like four sacks,
three sacks his entire time. Yeah, so I don't know,
maybe maybe that that would be the cop if I
was trying to be optimistic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one that I think it is kind a
little bit of a little bit of momentum here. So
we'll see, Yeah, we'll see it. Kind of you know,
I understand the scars issue though, Like he definitely feels
like the DNA of other people and and when you know,
it was like, oh man, like he had a great combine.
It's like, all right, like this this totally makes sense
just within their DNA. You know, I think you do
want athletic pass rushers, like that's the worst way to go,
but yeah, it feels it feels very similar. But you know,
if they went that direction, hopefully this would be the
one that uh breaks the mold and proves the hypothesis.
But yeah, I definitely definitely will feel more comfortable with
more production. Ass that's the direction they do go.
Speaker 1: Nick Underhill Nick underscore Underhill on Twitter, Sorr, Nick, We've
could be very long this morning, but uh, you know,
news is crazy right now and Norm's football is a
great resource to stay on top of the bollved.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, man, Yeah, Katie's you guys take
it easy.
Speaker 1: B all right, coming up, neck, Let's check in with
that guy hold the Mayo q lock Dough TV off
the bench. YO, what's up? Y'all?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Now, it's time to check in with our guy de Snow.
We're here at U Club of the U High Golf term.
That's right, baby, goat cups. But let's go over to
Nola five o fo we check in with Depn snow Dev.
What's up brother? How are we doing today?
Speaker 5: Yo? What's happening? How doing?
Speaker 1: Uh? Doing well? Doing well? Uh? Missed you last week?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Down there in Disney, h ran away from Marti Gras,
which you know, I certainly missed the parades and and whatnot.
I did see some of your stuff though online it
seems like you had quite the Marty Gras de I mean.
Speaker 5: By the way, dude, I love Disney, so I'm I
support your decision. Hell yeah, where do y'all stay at?
Speaker 1: Uh Old Key West? Again? The only reason I'm able
to go so much my in laws joined that DVC
thing and that's like their home base. So it's it's
it's a it's a cool spot, man, you know, it's
it's great in a room for all the family and whatnot.
But basically we just grind it in the park every
day all day. No quit grinded at Disney and a family.
Oh yeah, ude, should have seen me in that beer garden. Actually,
that is one thing I've never done in Disney. To
be fair, I have never engaged in any grinding. Okay,
that wait to depth. Okay, So last year you had
a float dedicated to you. This year, it seems like
every time I saw a video with you, you were
just being pelted with throws and beads. Like it really
feels like for the hold the Mayo brand that Marty
Gras is the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: What was it like again, as somebody who has just
grinded up a kid from the parish making this thing
a reality?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: What was it like feeling the love from all the
people out there?
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's pretty awesome, man. I mean I'm
a thirty two you old dude. You know what I'm saying.
It's not easy to catch beads.
Speaker 2: Now period, right, So for whatever reason you know, God
has in his position to way, it's the complete opposite, dude,
I'm catching everything.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying for the kid. It's for
the kid, all right.
Speaker 2: You got to give it off to the kids.
Speaker 7: Some people they're comment on my thing, thinking like I'm
going over all the heat and going to play with them,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Dev What about So I saw you at Elfred Peyton
on the podcast recently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Alfred's awesome.
Speaker 1: He is awesome, So it seems like it seems like
he had a great time real quick. Where could everybody
find the podcast if they want to check it out.
Speaker 5: It's on my YouTube on Whole to Mayo YouTube and
then also.
Speaker 7: I put it on Apple and Spotify, RYP podcast, So.
Speaker 1: Go check that out. What was your favorite part of
sitting down with EP?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Man, He's just like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess you would think if you never met Alfred Payton,
you would think he's fighting, like this quiet guy maybe,
and that's just not the case, you know what I'm saying.
He's very social, very like New Orleans accent.
Speaker 5: You could tell that man. Whenever he can get back
down here, he comes back down here, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So a week when when I did the podcast with
him and he.
Speaker 2: Was just hanging out in Gretna, you know, tell yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 5: Man. He just really had a lot to say. He
was like, you asked him something about, hey, how you
feel about aliens? He hadn't answer right away.
Speaker 2: He was like, man, I feel like it's like they
treat us like the zoo. You know, they just come by,
look at us and roll out and I was like, oh,
that's pretty strong.
Speaker 1: Dev How are we feeling? Uh? As far as Saints
fandom right now, we just talked to Nick Underhill. There's
the recent reports that Derek Carr kind of wanted out
and the Saints said, nah, you're sticking around.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of major moves made yesterday. The
most major thing I guess the Saints would be doing.
We've been signing Chase Young, bringing in Gotshaw. How are
we feeling after the first real day of free agency?
Speaker 5: Isn't that something though?
Speaker 2: You know that that Derek Carr wanted to explore his options,
Like you can't. It can't just be, Hey, you know,
we got another year with this guy.
Speaker 5: It's gotta be we got another year with this guy,
and he was exploring his options.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: It's as if he did like this magnificent job to
where he should be exploring his options, like, dude, get
out of.
Speaker 5: Here, bro, Like I just it's it's unbearable, man.
Speaker 7: I got the news about the Derek Carr instructure right
before I went to dinner for my grandpa's eightieth birthday.
Speaker 5: It was a surprise party. I had the surprise with that.
Speaker 1: How was the eightieth birthday there?
Speaker 5: It was awesome? Was that desie Vegas.
Speaker 2: Veterans is a beautiful establishment. I never been to that
desie Vegas.
Speaker 5: I've been it the one on Saint Charles. I've never
been to that one. But it was awesome. Man, everybody
showed up. Ronnie remark was at the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: Oh Ronnie was there, Let's go. Wait, you didn't bring
him to the Cajun cannon. Dev I was about to say,
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 1: Desie Vegas came on. It's right there.
Speaker 5: I look, bro, our vault looks nobody has supported the king.
Liked were good.
Speaker 7: All the time.
Speaker 1: The kajan a beer fries with the roast beef debris. Guys,
you will need a heart bypass almost immediately afterwards. But
it'll it'll put you in the dirt, but you'll feel
good going down.
Speaker 5: But no Ronnie.
Speaker 2: Ronnie and my grandpa they grew up next door to
each other in Araby on Neely Street, So you know.
Speaker 5: I Ronnie was in a hot when I was born.
You know what I'm saying. I've known my whole life.
So it was it was cool to see everybody show
up for it. But yeah, man, back to the Saints.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, dev I was about to ask you, okay,
and I don't I don't mean to go dark here,
but now that Mardi Gras is over, the Saints all
season is looking like it is. The Pelicans couldn't find
a win. As you would say with a search warrant,
like what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: What right now is getting you going?
Speaker 4: Because now that Carnival season's over, I mean, there's just
not a lot on the horizon if you're a New
Orleans sports fan to get excited about.
Speaker 2: No, there isn't There isn't anything. You can't even do
a reach and find something. You know, you just got
to kind of like watch wrestling, you know, John Cena,
Heel turn bro it's the biggest thing going on right now.
But yeah, I mean, I guess LSU baseball you know
that than that?
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe little Tyler Warren maybe if the draft
goes your way. But you we all know they're going
to take the edge rusher out of Marshall. We know
that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Do you put that on me?
Speaker 5: His name is gonna be Peyton Davenport.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we literally just had to ask Nick, like,
is Peyton Turner still on the team. No, it turns
out he's a free agent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how about that of a tree fall? He was
a first round er, so it probably will happen. But
if that man gets a contract in free agency after
literally like not stepping onto the field, like, what do
we even doing?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Davenport got another year in Detroit. But
Davenport he.
Speaker 4: Flashed yeah yeah lash where if he was on the
field that you could see there was something?
Speaker 1: Wait, dev plan, No, he just got he just got
another year in Detroit. Oh really yeah, let me hold on,
let me look it up.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I love to see what the numbers are.
Speaker 5: Minisoda got he got released? Huh from Minnesota?
Speaker 1: Uh NFL free agency news Lions to re sign Davenport
to a one year deal worth up to four point
seventy five million dollars. Yeah yeah uh. Also unbelievable the
Sena heel turn. And yeah, I gotta say the I
thought the acting chops of Sena were on full display. Now,
wrestling acting is kind of its own thing, but I
don't know, man, like the facial change in Sena when
he went from good guy the bad guy. Like all
the memes that I've seen online, it's actually fantastic.
Speaker 3: No, it really was.
Speaker 5: That was like some top not cinema, I mean to
go from He really sold it, you know what I'm saying.
Like he was really like all about Cody Rhodes in
the ring, you know, cheering on the crowds, and it
just came down to that face. That face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'd never seen but I ain't never seen
team to make that face.
Speaker 5: So that was that was crazy. Man. I think he's
gonna go bald uh. And he's got an.
Speaker 2: Appearance this Friday on SmackDown, so I guess we'll be
able to see. Oh no, I don't think it's just Friday. Actually,
I think it's a Monday. I think they in Belgium
or something and he's appearing. But anyway, Uh, WrestleMania is
gonna be lit man.
Speaker 4: That's so that's what. Yeah, that's what you have to
look forward. It's just about to say. I didn't want
to say that, but like, is wrestle Maania next year
the thing that's getting you through right now?
Speaker 5: Dev Yeah, man, dude, it's gonna be a goot. It's
gonna be a great time.
Speaker 7: I mean, they're gonna have the same thing as Super Bowl,
like the media week, Like I'm sure y'all will be that.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope. So I got to cover it
a few years ago. I didn't get to go to
the actual event, but I covered a lot of it
around it, and it was it was very cool, you know,
it was crazy. That was like the Undertaker year and
seeing the Undertaker come out in the press conference and
they announced and everything. Just seeing like Triple H in person.
It's kind of like when you did the thing with
the Rock the other day. It's so weird to see
these guys that you've grown up watching in real life
in your city. And if the Super bowls any indication,
i mean, New Orleans killed it, you know, So here's
dove when they go back to back in terms of
putting the best foot forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just like wrestling, man, You just there's
so many wrestlers throughout the years, right, you kind of forget, like,
you know about some wrestlers like from twenty years ago.
Speaker 5: Then you see and you're like, oh, you know what
I'm saying, Like that's this guy. And I feel like
wrestling really like embodies that.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, just so many guys that
you remember, Bro.
Speaker 1: How pissed would you be if you were Cody Rhodes
and Travis Scott burst your ear drum? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Uh, it's it's something. I'll tell you what though. I'm
not even like a huge Travis Scot guy, but.
Speaker 2: They even some it's a rock bro. He even found
a way to make him sallible, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,
like it's it's as a bad guy, you know, like
this this rapper Travis Scott, you know now he's on
the Rocks team.
Speaker 3: He's selling merch.
Speaker 2: You know, it's one of the best moves ww's done
in a long time with the whole heel turn.
Speaker 1: Really is there he is. Dem snow aka Hold, the
Mayo Voice of the City, had a great Marty Girl
htmsports dot Com slash shop you can get all of
your excellent Marti Gral merch. I saw a lot of
it down there in Disney. I was recking my rbn
R shirt. Dev you're the man man. Thank you so
much for waking up with us this morning.
Speaker 5: All right, appreciate you. You'll take care, Take care.
Speaker 1: Dem snow Hold the MAO again, htmsports dot Com, slash shop,
get all of your merchant and go subscribe to the
Hold the Mayo YouTube channel. That's who you can get
all of the postgame shows and and any live reactions,
podc casts all of it. Dev's just absolutely killing it
all right. When we get back here on off the Bench,
I'm a little intrigued to see where Tata is gonna
go with this because it is time for another Tata
NFL Story of the Day day, and there's about seven
thousand different storylines that he can play with here. So
coming up next here on off the bench, Off the bench, Yo,
what's happening to y'all? Welcome back to O t B.
We are live here at U Club for the University
High Golf Tournament. Shout out to the Cubs, go you high. Indeed,
right now though it is time for a Tata NFL
Story of the Day.
Speaker 8: Day, It's time for Tait's NFL Story of the Day day,
your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 6: All right, guys's got a little two for you today.
Speaker 9: The first one today, Brown's actually made a pretty significant
move that's kind of under the radar right now.
Speaker 6: They have traded for Kenney Pickett.
Speaker 9: They gave up Dorian Thompson Robinson and the twenty twenty
five fifth round pick. Now, Pickett's obviously been a backup quarterback,
but Shawn Watson tore his achilles once again that people
kind of forget about. So Pickett's gonna have a chance
to start in Cleveland. Look, he was fifteen and ten
as Pittsburgh's starting quarterback.
Speaker 6: Six fourth quarter.
Speaker 9: Comebacks, seven game winning drives with the Steelers, not quite
as bad.
Speaker 6: As maybe most people remember.
Speaker 9: So again, they only had to give up Dorian Thompson
Robinson in a fifth round pick for a guy that
could come in and start for an injured Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 6: And T Bob, you were trolling me earlier about the
Dallas Cowboys. What do you say about this? They've done it.
They got their running back. Guys got Javonte Williams.
Speaker 9: They signed him to a one year, three million dollar deal,
the guy who's averaged less than four yards per carry
in back to back seasons for the Denver Broncos. We'll
be toting the rock for the Dallas Cowboys. For the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: O God, Rome's gonna let me hear it because I
was sitting here juicing up Jerry talking about how Jarah
had something up his sleeve, some big splashy move. And
I don't know that Javonte Williams passes the uh the
sniff test. There No, Okay, look other NFL stories that happened.
Sam Darnold to Seattle three years, one hundred and five
million dollars fifty five guaranteed. And it's a bit weird,
right if you're a Seahawks sanctions like, hold on now,
So we get rid of Metcalf, we cut Lockett, we
trade Gino, and then we just get Gino kind of
back basically. But I don't know, Jake. I guess it
makes a little bit of sense to me because again,
at time of signing, in terms of percentage of the cap,
it's a significantly beat the better deal than Derek Carr.
It's it's slightly more affordable than somebody like Baker Mayfield,
though I think Baker's more consistent and more proven. There's
a lot more risk with Donald. It's a waylter deal
with somebody like Daniel Jones. And so I'm like, okay,
So in the end, this Seahawks get some draft picks
they get younger at quarterback. Yeah, with a guy that's
maybe basically even but with potentially more upside than a Geno.
So I don't hate it for Seattle, even if at
first I was kind of questioning that. I mean, Sam
Donald's still incredibly young. Yeah, twenty seven, which is really
weird to think about for how long he's been in
the league.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of quarterbacks that were drafted two
years after him that he's still younger than. So, like, yeah,
he came into the league extremely young into a bad situation,
and so I don't hate the move. And like you said,
you get some picks back, and you know, Geno Smith
he threw for a lot of yards, but was he
going to be that much better than once Sam Donald
can give you? Now, I know the weapons are going
to look different because you trade DK to Pittsburgh there,
but for him and for them, it's not you know,
it's not a deal that's going.
Speaker 1: To tie them for seven years or anything crazy like that.
So a three year deal, a little bit over fifty.
Speaker 4: Million guaranteed for again, a twenty seven year old quarterback
coming off his best year when he was given some
actual weapons around him, and you know Jackson Smith and
jig By somebody that you can build around him.
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's not Jets, but you can certainly
build around him. And he's going to be the number one. Now,
maybe nobody's had a more exciting offseason up to this
point than the commanders. Why am I blanking? Who's the
new weapon they brought in to Perry McLaurin, big move.
We talked about it last week. Yeah, they bring in
Deebo Samuel. So now all of a sudden, you're investing
in more weapons for Jad and Daniels, and more importantly,
investing in protection for Jade and Daniels. As Washington sends
four picks to Houston for Laramie Tunsel, they send this
year's third and seventh, they send a twenty twenty six
second and fourth. Of course, he already gave up a
fifth round for Debo. So again, like I said earlier,
you might as well be giving boner pills to a
GM when you have a great young quarterback like Jayda
on a rookie contract and they are down to clown
whenever where ever, they're ready for action.
Speaker 4: He sent four picks, but you also get a really
good player, anti pick back, and so like if you said, okay,
you give a third a seventh, and the next year
a second and a fourth, and you give up a
fifth for this draft as well. In return, you get tunsled,
you get debo back and a pick. I think you
would take that every single time.
Speaker 1: Well, especially because where you're at, you're in win now
mode and you're having to compete with the Philadelphia Eagles.
You are appearing to get stronger and stronger every single
season as the Cowboys and Giants look like they are
kind of flailing losing steam a little bit.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: Cowboys son Solomon Thomas, I believe they're tay.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Yeah, isn't he the LSU O
line recruit Solomon Different.
Speaker 9: He was the first round pick and everybody loves so much,
and everybody loves so never did anything, never did anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Larmie Tunsell has done something, made three consecutive
Pro Bowls. So that's a huge addition. Like Washington making
Jayden Daniels feel very loved, very protected and saying, look, man,
we believe in you. We are going all in on you.
Speaker 3: J C.
Speaker 1: Horn signs a four year, one hundred million dollars in.
J C. Horn now the highest paid defensive back in
NFL history. And what's kind of crazy about this. This
is a guy that almost missed half the games of
his first three seasons. Now last year he came on
played ninety percent of the snap So they're hoping that
that's going to be the case going forward. But that's that's,
you know, grats to j. C. Horn.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that's not gonna stick long. I mean,
as soon as Stingley gets his extension, yeah, that'll be.
That'll be cret of set the mark.
Speaker 1: But I would talk real quick about the Steelers here
on the way out. Actually I just saw the clock.
I'll just say this. I think the Steelers should go
with Aaron Rodgers over Russell Wilson. And I was out
on Aaron Rodgers, but then I was thinking, like, Okay,
his numbers are actually better than Wilson. And he was
in the he was with the Jets. And when you're
talking about the Jets and the Steelers, some of two
franchises that are maybe more opposite than any others in
the entire NFL. Like you get DK, don't know if
you'll have Pickens or not, but like I actually as
out as I was on Rogers. I think Rogers and
the Steelers makes the most sense in trying to maximize
winning next season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would choose him over us as well. And
I bet you the guests that we have from eight
to nine tomorrow would agree with everything you just said.
Speaker 1: Sure true. All right, when we get back, let's go
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ask the bench. Ask the bench thoughts on the HBO
Harry Potter series casting the thirty four year old black
man as Professor Snape. Guys, I look, I gotta be
honest here. Well, first off, I think I think it
like I love the actors. Look, I think he looks good.
But this is the thing that I alway, he's have
to kind of laugh about when I remind people Harry
Potter's not real and you could cast anyone as anyone.
It doesn't matter. It's It's like it's like people complaining
about like black Dwarfs and Lord of the Rings. What
are we talking about, guys? These are fantasy worlds And
you say, oh, well too, you want to you want
to honor the source material. Okay, but that doesn't mean
that they can or that he won't be a great snape.
And plus, if you want like the book accurate, severa snape,
you have that you have Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman, is
he was that?
Speaker 8: And so no?
Speaker 1: I I love it. I think the casting for the
show looks really good. I'm actually a bit more excited
for the show than I than I was. I've never
seen any Harry Potter movie. Ask the bench. Uh favorite
pro wrestling big man and favorite tag team? Hah Man?
Oh big Man? Like going Kevin Nash from a big
man called d Sel, Big Daddy Diesel, I go Razor
Ramone and I'm going for tag team. I got a few.
The Hardy Brothers were always a top my list of
Dudley browser badass, but sneaky one that was really good.
Sneaky one for me, Jake was Billy Kidman and Raymusterio.
Not like they only teamed up for a little while,
but high flyers a lot of flips. I was into
it growing up. That's a great hoow. I mean the
bush Whackers were great. Uh favorite wrestling heel or bad guy? Ever,
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